The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-06-16
THE WEAKER SEX.

Miss Ellen K. Abbott is teaching her sew
enty-third term of school at Webster, N. H.
There are five young women enrolled in
the law department of the Michigan uni
Yersity.
The University for the Higher Education
of Women, at st. Petersburg. has been closed
by order of the
A woman of Berlin, Ont, recently gave
birth to her twenty-first child, and both she
and the little one thriving.
1t is rumored that Miss Willard and the
Rev. Joseph Cook are To he associated in the
publication of a prohibition journal.
a woman who counts her children to the
number of t'veuty-tisht. it i, stated has
been pensionei by the Mexican government.
A Nogales G.. T.: lady nearly checked to
death while eating oranges by the 3is,lace-
ment of her false teeth, which lodged i'll her
throat.
The girls of Covingtor, XIV, have organ
lied a boycott which is to secure non-associa-
ton with young who are in the habit of
drinking
Six widows live six adjoining farms i'll
the town of Venan9U, Pa, and, What is more
remarkable, they are all KendeiSo;.-. being
widows of the late Henderson brothers,
Thomas, Samuel, Andrew, Stewart, William
and Alexander.
Afold lady who died lately i'll Vienna be
queaths her property, valued at sc, 600 forms,
to her 10 year-oid nieae condition that the
latter would never wear clothes of any other
cut than those worn by her aunt. The condi-
ftion was accepted
$ Two French ladies have been decorated
with the order o: c;levalicrcs of the legion of
honor; Nine Dieu.afoy for lier merit an
archaeologist AMI scientific writer, and Mime.
Gelas for her devotion il founding scholastic
and beneficent establishments in Lebanon.
Mrs. Abigail Jones Goldsmith, who recently
celebrated her 100 Il birthday in gainesville,
Ohio, has ten children, twenty-six grand
children, fifteen great grandchildren, and one
reat-great- grandchild. and the aggregate of
the ages of the mother and living descendants
is over ], 100 years.
Mime. Trelat, who died in Paris recently at
the age of 81, leaving fortune of ESQ, 900 to
the municipality of Paris, was patriot and
devoted worker for the interest of women.
When the New York infirmary school. which
admitted women, was struggling into ex-
istence, Nine Trelat unsolicited sent over
generous donation.
. A young lady said at the recent meeting Of
the Womans Christian Temperance union III
Savannah: "Chivalry, which has fed from
all other quarters, has taken refuge i'll the
newspaper Offices" It is unnecessary to state
that this young lady Is the prettiest and
brightest representative of her sexin Georgia.
Nasty vile Union.
Every Year the municipal authorities In
Paris award prize of .e4o0 to the most
meritorious, best conducted and cleverest
young needewoman to enable her to estab-
lish herself as a dressmaker As may be well
supposed, the candidates are numerous
enough. \ Mile Eugene Breton has just
succeeded in carrying off the prize.
Mrs. Robert p. Porter says in her current
newspaper letter that there are $4,000 bar
maids i'll London. The barmaid is always
young and generally pretty. She is the
pariah of the public house, the rejected of the
philanthropist and the parish visitor. There
are no associations for the benefit of the bar
maid. There are Bible classes, prayer
meetings, no special services for her, although
even the wicked ballet girl has her Sunday
tea